Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A kind of light spongy bread or bun, sometimes slightly sweetened, to be eaten with tea.
Examples
“Here is a closer look at the delicious cranberry tea-bread.”
“But now she slept in the next bed over from Sarah's, and they shared many late-night giggles and confidences, instead of leftover tea-bread.”
“Mrs. Gaskell's "Cranford" is full of the most delicate but veritable humor, as her allusion to the genteel and cheerful poverty of the lady who, in giving a tea-party, "now sat in state, pretending not to know what cakes were sent up, though she knew, and we knew, and she knew that we knew; and we knew that she knew that we knew she had been busy all the morning making tea-bread and sponge-cakes.”
“Jacobi laughed too, kissed Elise's hand, and then hastened to mingle in the group of young people, who assembled themselves round the tea-table to see and to pass judgment on an extraordinary kind of tea-bread wherewith Louise would welcome her bridegroom, and which, according to her opinion, besides the freshest freshness, was possessed of many wonderful qualities.”
“It's good stuff but it's nothing like the tea-bread I've been making recently.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘tea-bread’.
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tea phrases /words
everything tea
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Wonderful bread
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The Way of Tea
All things tea (lingo, paraphernalia, types).
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